Mayor appeals to Interior Minister Aryeh Deri for external help • Major General Bachar will help increase the number of examinations • Ministry of Health: Another increase in the number of patients: 7,851, of whom 108 are respirators • Another victim to Corona in Israel: 88-year-old woman died at Shamir Assaf Medical Center
Generals' entry into the management of ultra-Orthodox cities in the Corona crisis expands: After Major General Roni Nome in Bnei Brak and Brigadier General Gal Gal Hirsch Balad, Major General Yossi Bachar, former commander of the Gaza Division and commander of the General Staff, was appointed to manage the ultra-Orthodox city of Betar Illit .
Bennett: "Demands to move campaign against Corona to the Ministry of Defense" // Photo: GPO
Major General Bachar is a paratrooper from Kibbutz Barry. He was commander of a paratrooper patrol and a commander of the Magellan unit during the years of the security band, who was summoned to serve as commander of the Paratroop Brigade after the late Dror Weinberg fell in Hebron.
The mayor of Beitar Illit approached Interior Minister Deri to appoint outside aid and Deri appointed Yossi Bachar tonight. Bachar is scheduled to begin tomorrow with increased testing at Betar Illit.
This evening, it was decided to give the IDF operation's name in Bnei Brak the name: IDF Operation Tomorrow in Bnei Brak: Operation Laser Foundation. The assistance will include purges and logistical assistance. Soldiers will distribute hot meals to residents in solitary confinement and the elderly. The soldiers will not be armed, and will be walking around with Home Front Command vests on civilian aid missions.
In the meantime, this evening the Ministry of Health updated another increase in the number of corona patients in Israel, which currently stands at 7,851. The number of patients is severe - 126, with 108 of them breathing.
At the same time, Shamir Assaf's medical center announced the death of an 88-year-old Corona patient who had been hospitalized since the beginning of the week. The statement said: "The patient suffered from background illnesses and died in the afternoon due to the complications of the virus. We participate in the grief of the family and send our condolences."
MDA opened the four "test and drive" complexes this Saturday only, and will only be open for four hours - from 8pm to midnight, following the shortage of reagents ("reactants") used to decipher the laboratory tests.
The Ministry of Health instructed the organization to stop the tests as early as Thursday evening, after accumulating about 4000 tests that cannot be resolved. On Friday, the test complexes and commuters worked in Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem and Beer Sheva for only four hours. One of the subjects posted on Twitter a message on Friday that "due to a lack of test kits and the guidance of the Ministry of Health, the queue for you in the compound was checked and a deferred ride".